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Films

My Big Fat Greek Wedding

Our film columnist Thomas Wartenberg ponders the pitfalls of cross-cultural coupling as he watches this season’s romantic comedy hit My Big Fat Greek Wedding.

My Big Fat Greek Wedding is the latest in a genre I call the ‘unlikely couple’ film. Unlikely couple films feature romantic couples whose composition transgresses some social norm. Interracial couples in particular, at least within most American contexts and, I assume, British ones as well, have faced opposition and disapproval. Although this has changed within some social contexts in recent years, there are still strong presumptions that it is better to marry within one’s own social group. Unlikely couple films use the romance of their transgressive couples to critically interrogate such social norms.

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